Archive for October 20th, 2013

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly is expected to address the tribe’s economic future on Monday as the Navajo Nation Council begins its fall session. The Daily Times (http://bit.ly/1bLW5LR ) reports that Shelly will make his...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — City officials in Alamogordo will have to get commission approval prior to traveling if an ordinance passes for the second time this week. The Alamogordo Daily News (http://bit.ly/1b0DYRi) says the city commission is scheduled to...

A crowd of about 150 people gathered on the lawn in front of Garden State Equality Friday Oct. 18, 2013, in Montclair, N.J. The state Supreme Court ruled that the state must begin granting same-sex marriage licenses. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein) TRENTON, N.J. (AP)...

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 2013 AND THEREAFTER – This Oct. 8, 2013 photo shows a stagnant swimming pool at the home of Marguerite Thoresen in Brisbane, Australia. Thoresen’s mother, Cynthia, who lived at the house, died on Jan. 3, 2009...

File- Thgis Oct. 17, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges,...

Egyptian security forces stand guard at a Coptic Christian church in the Waraa neighborhood of Cairo late Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 after gunmen on motorcycles opened fire, killing a woman and wounding several people. Egypt has been on edge since a July 3...

In this photo taken Oct. 18, 2013, self-employed photographer Michael Weaver works the sidelines of a high school football game in Jerseyville, Ill. “We need to stop the arguing and move forward to make it work.” It took him about a week and half of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on Sunday, Oct. October 2013. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool) JERUSALEM (AP) — Just days after the first round of global nuclear talks with Iran, a rift...

In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, a freight train travels south alongside Highway 99 near Livingston, Calif. Construction of the nation’s first high-speed rail system is slated to begin in Fresno promising to create construction jobs and link...